MICCAI History

The MICCAI Society was incorporated in 2004. The MICCAI conference series was formed in 1998 by the merger of CVRMed (Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine), MRCAS (Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery) and VBC (Visualization in Biomedical Computing). The first MICCAI conference was in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

CVRMed

MRCAS

VBC

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The founding members of MICCAI were:

Nicholas Ayache, INRIA, France

Alan Colchester, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Takeyoshi Dohi, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

James Duncan, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Karl Heinz Hoehne, University of Hamburg, Germany

Ron Kikinis, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Stephen Pizer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA